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Weather forecasting. Fucking joke when I was growing up. Now they can usually tell me when it's going to rain, nearly to the hour. Still all you hear is people saying "this wasn't forecast" on the odd occasion something slips the net.

In fact, now I@m paying more attention to it, it seems shitter if anything.

Like two dys ago, the whole of the South was meant to be covered in heavy rain. They made a big deal about it, and it did rain, but not for that long and about 8 hours late. That's a entire day out. I know winds can change and everything but that kinda inaccuracy can completely ruin someone's day.

Also, lest we forget "the BBQ summer" they promised last year then admitted in September it never happened. :/

Myself and a friend got picked up in a taxi last week and it was a skoda, lovely and comfortable inside, looked great and was a very smooth ride. We actually had a discussion that nobody gives skoda the credit they deserve!

is nowhere near as hilarious as it was when I was in sixth-form / GCSE and A-levels study leave. I used to look forward to when I had morning's off being able to laugh at Channel 4.

I remember once there must have been a season or something of really vaguely educational shows about sex; one was about the portrayal of sex in soaps for no reason, and then there was another following a bunch of teenagers giving up masturbating for a period of time (I remember one episode including a line that was something like 'I woke up this morning and my balls were huge')

and I'm sure there was one documentary about some fat kid who was in a Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band and he killed his mate who was also in the band. There was one bit, I'm sure, where it talked about how the murderer wanted to take the band in a darker, more metal-influenced direction or something.

my memory may just have invented all these amazing things because I seem to be the only person I know of who's made this observation; but there was another show that was a comedy sketch show or something with a sex education theme, I think.

One of the sketches was a bunch of girls in their bathroom, presumably in the house they shared, and they looked at each other and started jumping in a celebratory way saying 'we're synchronised!'

No point getting all insecure and having a little cry. I'm sure we all prefer more upmarket shit a lot of the time, but occasionally, especially when you're in a group, a few hours in a Wetherspoons is JUST FINE.

Everyone used to moan about how shit it was and the state of the stations and trains, and then they started moaning about the weekend closures and engineering work needed to bring it up to scratch, but no one seems to realise just how much better public transport in London has got since the creation of TfL in 2000. The tube, and especially the buses, are so much more reliable and clean and efficient compared to what they were fifteen years ago.

Literally, massively. Like out of nowhere the difference was genuinely surprising.

Got worse with Boris. Especially as he's got rid of the bendy buses that carried THREE times the amount of a normal bus. Getting the 25 bus now is horrendous. They're way too packed. Was never like that before. Twat Boris.

again, not so sure. there's always been one every couple of mins on that line.

i'm not knocking it, and i know they are working on it, but it's a fairly nightmarish experience getting on it at rush hour. which is why i cycle to work. take yourself out of an unsolvable equation. an equation only solved by chucking a fuck load of money at it.

Actually a half decent programme these days. More chatting around the table. Lauren L not doing her own segment anymore (was awful) and evryone slicker and more relaxed. And no longer competing with Question Time which was the stupidest move Channel 4 ever made.

speeds and reliability are incredibly impressive. People now go on right rants if they can only get half a meg, that would have been amazing not too long ago. Now people complain if a programme they are watching in HD glitches out a few times. Also you can basically google anything, you can street view the way somewhere, read a review of it and read its menu ffs.